Mount Comfort, Indiana

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Mount Comfort, Indiana
Unincorporated community
Mount Comfort is located in Indiana
Mount Comfort
Mount Comfort
Coordinates: 39°49′51″N 85°54′55″W / 39.83083°N 85.91528°W / 39.83083; -85.91528Coordinates: 39°49′51″N 85°54′55″W / 39.83083°N 85.91528°W / 39.83083; -85.91528
CountryUnited States
StateIndiana
CountyHancock
TownshipBuck Creek
Elevation
860 ft (260 m)
ZIP code
46140
FIPS code18-51390[1]
GNIS feature ID439557[2]

Mount Comfort is an unincorporated community in Buck Creek Township, Hancock County, Indiana.

History[]

A post office was established at Mount Comfort in 1851, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1956.[3]

Mount Comfort was platted as a town in about 1882, when the railroad was extended to that point.[4]

Geography[]

Mount Comfort is located at

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39°49′51″N 85°54′55″W / 39.83083°N 85.91528°W / 39.83083; -85.91528.

References[]

  1. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  2. ^ "Mount Comfort, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  3. ^ "Hancock County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  4. ^ Richman, George J. (1916). History of Hancock County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions. Wm. Mitchell Printing Company. pp. 570.



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